PROCEEDINGS 



or THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For January, 1875. 



The monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, 

 the 6th instant, at 9 o'clock p. M. 



Col. H. Hyde, R. E., President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following presentations were laid on the tahle : — 



1. From the Secretary, Government of India, Home Department, a 

 photograph of a colossal granite image in the Tinevelly District. 



2. From M. E. Aymonier, a copy of ' Dictionnaire Francaise-Cam- 

 bodgien.' 



3. From M. Stanislas Meunier, a copy of the work entitled " Cours 

 de Geologie Compare'e." 



4. From the Government of Bombay, a copy of the Memorandum on 

 the Buddhist Caves at Junnar, by J. Burgess, Esq., and Translations of 

 three Inscriptions from Badami, Pattadkal and Aiholli, by J. F. Fleet, 

 Esq., Bombay C. S. 



5. From F. Beaufort, Esq., a specimen of Sponge grown in a tank in 

 the Dollanda Asylum. 



Mr. Wood-Mason remarked that the mass exhibited was a dried speci- 

 men of the' common freshwater Sponge that abounded in the tanks of Cal- 

 cutta and its vicinity. 



The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last meet- 

 ing, were elected ordinary members — 



John Sutherland Gunn, Esq., M. B., Surgeon, Bengal Army. 



Capt. C. S. F. S. Forbes, Deputy Commissioner, Shwegyeen. 



Richard Lydekker, Esq., Geological Survey of India. 



The following are candidates for ballot at the next meeting — 



James Armstrong, Esq., Surgeon Bengal Army, proposed by Mr. H. 

 B. Medlicott, seconded by Mr. J. Wood-Mason. 



